ALERT! The HOA Is ATTEMPTING TO INTIMIDATE HOMEOWNERS INTO PAYING BOGUS FINES--DON'T FALL FOR IT!!!
As we highly suspected would happen, we now know Peachtree Village HOA has begun attempting to make up for their financial mismanagement and misappropriation of our HOA funds by attempting to intimidate homeowners into paying fines, even ones that have were illegitimately carried over from Goodwin & Co. One homeowner, for example, was told he had a balance of over $400.00 because the HOA Board tried to charge him for a bill they got from the attorney THEY hired to cover up what THEY DID wrong all the while they were pretending to be legitimately elected when, in fact, they had not been. Fortunately, a letter to that attorney, informing him about the illegality of this charge to someone who was not his client resulted in the charge being removed...but had the homeowner not been aware of his rights, he might have been intimated into paying this ridiculous extra fee!
Another homeowner got a letter of a fee-stacking charge (an unscrupulous practice) left over from Goodwin & Co. way back in June of 2025! But now Proper wants to collect this money for the Peachtree Village HOA!
And we've already mentioned in another article how we tested Proper's PO Box in Las Vegas that did not result in a credit to a homeowner's account until 9 NINE days after the check was mailed, but had the homeowner not been able to prove when he mailed the check a week before it was due (because it was sent by his bank's Bill Pay service), this could very well have resulted in a late fee charge!
Now more than ever, especially given the fact the Peachtree Village HOA Board is STILL not telling us what they've been doing with all OUR MONEY all summer long, and here is it MID-OCTOBER, and the only information we did get was a "draft" which, even then, admitted they were over -$11,000.00 in the red, tells us they are now going to try anything, say anything, no matter how baseless, just to see how many homeowners they can bamboozle into handing over even more money than we already have, which they have either misspent or misappropriated!!!
Therefore, if you get one of these so-called "courtesy" letters, don't just pay the fine without first stopping and questioning whether or not there is any legitimacy to it! You have every right to challenge these fines, both in writing and/or by demanding a special meeting with the HOA Board, and if you need any help to do so, please don't hesitate contacting us here at the Neighborhood Union for help (info@peachtreevillageplano.com). That's why we're here! (And by the way, that's also why the HOA wanted so badly to get rid of us before they began implementing their draconian plan to crack down on us.) Let's send the HOA Board the strong message--THE ANSWER TO YOUR FINANICAL MISMANAGMENT AND MISAPPROPRIATE OF OUR MONEY IS NOT MORE FINES BUT FOR YOU TO PAY BACK WHAT YOU TOOK (IF NOT STOLE) FROM US!!!
You Have the RIGHT to Demand the HOA DELETE Most ALL of Your Personal Information They Possess...Even If You Gave It To Them At Some Time In the Past!
Texas Privacy laws protect us from HOAs obtaining or keeping or using most of our private information against our will. Of course, HOAs will not tell you that! They want us to think that we're helpless and, if ever at some point in the past, a homeowner or lessee gave them their phone number or email address, it forever belongs to them, and they can use this info however they please. NOT SO! Even if you did give the HOA or their HOA management company your private information, you have the right to change your mind, and demand they never use it again and permanently delete it!
The only information the HOA has a right to have are the names of the persons who OWN the homes in our community and the addresses of those homes, along with their US mail addresses if they happen to be different, but that is it (and they no right to know the names of any lessees)! They have no right to insist on any other information. Of course, they can ASK for more information. They can also ASK for information about LESSEES...BUT they have no right to DEMAND to get it, and YOU have every right to tell them, "NO!" or "No more!"
We know Peachtree Village HOA has been trying to pry and hunt and, we suspect, are even doing Internet searches, to obtain personal information about our community members' data, especially to obtain phone numbers and email addresses, so they can begin inundating us with propaganda at no or little cost. Regardless, though, whether it was with or without your informed consent, they cannot, retain or use that information, if you should choose to withdraw your consent.
If you want to do so, the best way is to send a certified letter to:
Peachtree Village HOA,
In Care Of Proper HOA Management Co.
1202 Richardson Drive, Suite 200
Richardson, TX 75080
Once you have a confirmation of the delivery, hang on to it, along with a copy of your withdrawal of consent letter with the certified letter number written at the top. In this way, if they every violate your privacy rights by using your personal data at any time or in any way after that, you'll have hard evidence which can then be presented to Law Enforcement and, if you don't mind, forward a copy of this evidence to the Neighborhood Union, so we can add it to all the other evidence we are compiling to bring a compelling General Complaint to Law Enforcement about Peachtree Village HOA in the event the Board chooses to continue violating our homeowner and resident rights, as well as ignoring their responsibilities to take care of our Common Areas and misappropriating so much or our HOA funds.
HOAs Primarily Rely on FEAR to Control the People in the Communities They've Invaded...But Only to Their Own Demise Because Fearmongering Is Bad For Their Health!
Peachtree Village HOA Board
2025 Information Withholding Scoreboard:
Not once this year, has any of the dozens of HOA record requests has been answered, even though this is a RIGHT of every homeowner, explicitly stated 4 times in our HOA Rules and in Texas State Law! The Peachtree Village HOA continues to, shamelessly, hide what they've done.
Not since May of this year, has the HOA published an official Financial Report! Nothing for June, July, August, nor September. More evidence, the Peachtree Village HOA continues to, shamelessly, hide what they've done
Not since July of this year, has the HOA published their Minutes, the official report of their meetings, nor have they been publishing all of their Executive Board Meeting Minutes which is also a requirement and, at least twice now, they have failed to take a vote to ratify the accuracy of Board meeting the few Board meeting minutes they've read in the meetings they've held this summer, suggesting very strongly they don't want to be held accountable for their accuracy, though the association Minutes are required to be accurate by Texas State Law, telling us once more, the Peachtree Village HOA continues to, shamelessly, hide what they've done!
Then the HOA Board cancelled its October 15, 2025 open meeting, (one of the only times homeowners can meet with the Board and confront them face-to-face with their grievances and demands for more than just excuses why questions continue to go unanswered, and is claiming the next one won't be until Mid November, making it increasingly clear, the Peachtree Village HOA intends to, shamelessly, hide what they've done!
Please Report HOA Abuse, Threats or Harassment at: 972-379-8910
If someone from ANY HOA or someone claiming to represent an HOA has accused, threatened or harassed you, or if you suspect someone from an HOA or representing an HOA is or has been spying on or stalking you at your home, or if you have received an HOA fine letter or an HOA letter threatening you with a fine, please don't hesitate to call the Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union at 972-379-8910 ASAP to get the resources you need to assert your homeowner/lessee rights and no longer be an HOA victim!
You have rights! Don't let Peachtree Village HOA or any HOA intimidate you into thinking or feeling like you don't!
The HOA Board CHANGES THEIR STORY A SECOND TIME, ON THE RECORD, JUST SO THEY CAN
(CONVINCE THEMSELVES THEY) HAVE A (ZOMBIE) ACC!!!
When the new-elected Peachtree Village HOA Board (4 of them from the previous "Board") admitted in the Minutes from their first Executive Board meeting on May 21, 2025 that they didn't know who, if anyone, was on the Architectural Control Committee! Given that most of these Board members had been on multiple previous "boards" for up to 5-6 years, this told us all we needed to know about the fact there had not been any sort of active ACC for at least that many years, and the fact their had been no functioning ACC for 5 to 6 years should have told the new Board to leave it in its legal grave where it belonged. But this new Board has been doggedly determined to bring this committee back from the dead, no matter how many lies they've had to make up and violations committed against our Rules to justify doing so, just so they can try to rob us of our home ownership/controllership.
You might recall, that at their July 16, 2025 meeting, the Board took a vote just amongst themselves, in order to hand pick whom THEY wanted to place on a revivified (essentially, made alive from the dead) Architectural Control Committee (ACC for short), even though our HOA's DCCRs or Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions (the "Rules" the Board is always saying all the rest of us are supposed to follow to the letter...or else really get it!) clearly say (in ARTICLE VII, Section 2.) that an HOA Board is NEVER to have anything to do with picking any members of an ACC! In fact, no HOA Board member, nor their spouses, nor anyone who lives in the same house as a Board member is permitted to be on an Architectural Control Committee...because that would be a CONFLICT OF INTEREST and a violation of the SEPARATION OF POWERS in HOAs here in Texas! While HOAs have way too much power as it is, they don't have absolute power...but that didn't stop the Peachtree Village HOA Board from, ONCE AGAIN, trying to violate the Law and usurp even more control than they already have!
[It's important for us to know that an ACC ordinarily has, in many ways, more power than the HOA Board does. Why? Because, ordinarily, it's the 3 people on the ACC who decide what changes or additions homeowners can or cannot make to their own houses and surrounding property, even if those changes/additions are in keeping with City property codes! This power is, of course, ridiculous on its face, because no one who is not the owner of a home should be able to control what it looks like, effectively making the ACC the real owners of the homes in the HOA communities where they tyrannically rule, in that, controllership is what makes for ownership!]
But unlike all the preceding years when no one was watching, and one "Board" after another thought they could get away with all sorts of illegitimate and illegal behaviors, our Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union was present at the July 16, 2025 Board meeting and quickly let the Board know they had violated the HOA Rules, and that should have been the end of it right there. Well, not with our Board, because they were determined to find some way to get around the Rules.
So, during their August 20, 2025 meeting, the President did what's called a "glance." She made a very fast and low volume statement in order to avoid notice, in which she admitted their attempt to openly select their own choices to replace the 2 vacant seats on the ACC (and to make sure Rick Lannoye was not one of them, though he had volunteered to serve on the committee at the June 18, 2025 Board meeting after, when they announced there was only one person on the ACC, and 2 more volunteers were needed to fill the vacancies, fearing, quite correctly, that he would stand in the way of their agenda to deny homeowners' sovereign right to be in charge of their own homes), she turned right around and did something ever worse--she falsely claimed there had been, in fact, no vacancies on the ACC after all!
She went on to falsely claim there had been an active, fully-seated ACC all the way up until their July 16, 2025 meeting and that, it was by some great feat of serendipity that, during their last Architectural Control Committee meeting (though she never said when this alleged meeting occurred), it just so happened 2 of them, in advance of submitting their resignations, pre-selected their replacements, who just so happened to be the exact same 2 persons the Board had hand-picked in their fake vote back on the July 16, 2025, and therefore, we now have a new ACC, just like they wanted, after all!
NO! NO THEY STILL DIDN'T!!!
Here's why: Even if it were true that, back on July 16, 2025, the Board had no idea the ACC had, without their knowledge, somehow selected the same 2 people the Board wanted to replace the other 2 who had not really already disappeared from the ACC long before (probably years before, in any active capacity), it wouldn't matter anyway! Why? Because our Rules (the DCCRs) are very specific about what to do when 1 or more persons on the ACC either die, resign or stop performing their duties and, thus, must be removed from the committee, and NONE of these options include ACC members PRESELECTING THEIR REPLACEMENTS!!!
ARTICLE VII, Section 2. of the DCCRS, actually provides only 2 options to replace ACC members: The first option is if only 1 member is no longer on the committee. If there is only 1 person no longer an active member (again, due to death, resignation or removed for "failure to function"), the remaining 2 ACTIVE committee members may select 1 (ONE) replacement all on their own. However, that's only if the 2 remaining, ACTIVE ACC members can agree on whom to select. If not, the second, Option 2 (Two) is all that's left: THE HOMEOWNERS MUST PICK!
So, if it should occur that an ACC is missing 2 or 3 members (the committee must have 3 active persons, and by "active," that means they meet regularly, take minutes, review all ACC requests, respond in writing to all requests, and forward written copies of all their records to the either the HOA Board or the HOA management company for permanent storage with all other HOA records) or, as explained above, if only 1 member is missing but the remaining 2 active members cannot agree on a replacement, then it falls to the Owners to decide who will be on the ACC, at a Special Meeting where they, THE HOMEOWNERS, NOMINATE who THEY WANT (not the HOA Board), and then vote to make THEIR selection(s)!
In other words, active ACC members whose intention is to resign CANNOT pick their replacements! Only 2 ACTIVE ACC members may select 1 (ONE) person for an already-vacated seat, and if there are 2 or 3 already-vacated seats, only the Homeowners can pick their replacements. In the event 2 members resign or intend to resign, it is NOT up to them to decide who replaces them, but the Homeowners only!
Of course, following this HOA Board's Change of Zombie ACC Story, Version One, the Neighborhood Union, once more, went to some considerable trouble to point out to the Board and our community at large how this bizarre story which, even on its own, had so many holes in it (like how did these 2 "about to resign" ACC members even know who these 3 volunteers were to pick from), the fact is, our CCRs do not permit ACC members to select their own replacements, and that the only way for active ACC members to select a new member is if there is only one vacancy which, in retrospect, may not have been so wise to inform them about because...
guess what HOA Board did at their September 17, 2025 meeting did as they were reading off their Minutes from the August 20, 2025 meeting?
THEY CHANGED THEIR STORY AGAIN!!!
This time, in their Change of Zombie ACC Story, Version Two, the HOA Board claimed, prior to July 16, 2025, the ACC was only down by one member (though this completely contradicts what their Minutes from June 18, 2025 says, "Donna De Chabert is the only [emphasis added] remaining ACC member because Barbara Ullom has dropped off and Linda Ferrio is moving away.") so, it was actually Donna De Chabert and Barbara Ullom who picked Pat Beets [again, how would they have even know he was available at that time???] to fill the single, vacant seat!!! And presto change-o, abracadabra alakazam, there's an ACC once again!
NO, NO, and STILL NO!!!
It certainly did not help them, though, that not only was the Neighborhood Union founder Rick Lannoye present at the HOA Board's September 17, 2025 meeting to hold them accountable for their contemptuous regard for the truth, but so was Donna De Chabert, the one and only person who may have any legitimate claim to having ever been on the ACC. So, when the formal business part of the meeting was over and homeowners were finally permitted time to talk and ask questions, Rick Lannoye immediately challenged the Board for their 3rd Attempt to hand pick whom they wanted on a revivified ACC, and directly asked Ms. De Chabert if, in fact, it was true that she and Barbara Ullom had ever held such a meeting, and her answer was "NO!" On this basis, then, Rick Lannoye, looked at the HOA Board secretary, Barry Applewhite, and stated, "Let the record show that we still do not have an ACC!"
The Peachtree Village HOA Board has REPEATEDLY demonstrated just how dishonest they are, how willing they are to lie and distort the truth, and all of this just so they can rob us of our home sovereignty!
But if the HOA Board actually begins to carry out their plan to launch this attack on our community, we, the Neighborhood Union, will be ready to respond with every legal and peaceful means at our disposal. We hope they'll change their tune and, if they really want to have an ACC that would have very little ability to do anything, given the many years of precedent during which so many homeowners got to do as they pleased, especially if they were white, there would be very little an ACC could tell others they could not do without subjecting the HOA to legal allegations of DISCRIMINATION, they would have to call for a vote by the Homeowners, whom of course, they do not respect enough to even allow such a chance to decide! They may, therefore, try to attack homeowners who make or who have made changes to their homes or yards or fencings, accuse them of not having gotten permission from their Zombie ACC first, and then try to fine them [and given how much financial trouble they're in already, maybe this is one what's motivating them more than the fact their ludicrous to take away our home ownership/controllership]!
Therefore, please let the Neighborhood Union (info@peachtreevillageplano.com) know immediately, if you get one of those threatening letters, even if they try to make it sound nice with euphemisms like a "courtesy" letter! The HOA thinks the people of our community are stupid, but we know better! Together, the very smart people of Peachtree Village, both the residents and non-resident homeowners are NOT going to put up with any more of the HOA's lies and their agenda to take away our home sovereignty.
Worse Than Expected, Our HOA Board Has Been Fooling Away Our Money
Like There's No Tomorrow!!!


Just a few hours before the Peachtree Village HOA Board holds it's September (07-2025) Board meeting, they released what they're describing as a "Draft Copy" of their Financial Statements for the last several months. The Neighborhood Union, of course, has been calling on the Board for most of this summer to publish, accurate accounts of what they've been doing with our money, as they was normally the case every month right up until the new Board took over in mid May of this year. The longer they delayed letting us know what they were doing with our money, the larger the shadow of suspicion loomed over the Board that they were NOT using our funds for our REAL NEEDS, and based on what we can see from just this "draft copy," it is most certainly the case the Board has fooled away many $1,000s, if not TENs of $1,000s!
We already knew they were spending a lot on propaganda printing and mail outs, such as their "news" letters and, more recently, a mail out that was, especially with this financial revelation, meant to redirect our community's focus on highly subjective allegations of the Union's founder's motives, along with wasteful, expensive, piece-meal repairs to our greenbelt's irrigation system and a very expensive insurance plan for HOA buildings...which do not exist!
Of course, the most offensive of these expenses is how much the Board has taken out of OUR HOA MONEY to pay a lawyer to use every trick in the book to cover up their illegitimate/illegal dealings--$10,762.50 through August!!! [And just in case you didn't see it, the YTD, YEAR TO DATE, figure--$3,437.50.00--IS NOT EVEN CLOSE TO CORRECT TOTAL!!!]
LET'S BE CLEAR--WHEN PEOPLE DO BAD THINGS, AND THEY NEED A LAWYER TO DEFEND THEM FOR HAVING DONE THOSE BAD THINGS, IT IS THEY, THE DOERS OF THOSE BAD THINGS WHO SHOULD PAY THAT LAWYER AND NOBODY ELSE, CERTAINLY NOT THE PEOPLE OF PEACHTREE VILLAGE! So, the Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union calls on the HOA Board to reimburse our HOA account for every penny they took from us, so those funds may be used for things we really need (like fixing the many potholes on our streets or re-seeding our greenbelt with native plants, etc.).
But just look at what the HOA Board has been shelling out to PROPER HOA MANAGEMENT company--$850. PER MONTH!!! [Sure, none of liked Goodwin & Co, but at least they were only gouging us for $522.00 a month] and FOR WHAT? Some classes in which the Board got to learn how to use manipulative words and expressions to make it seem like they were our friends???
Of course, we are still paying out of the wazoo for $2,021.00 PER MONTH, just to mow down the grab-grass on our greenbelt down to the nubs. This is completely unsustainable, and the tragedy is that, had the Board acted responsibly, we could have already been in a very good position to have reduced the need for mowing by this point in time and, with a wise plan for native plant replacement, would could get rid of this cost altogether.
Now, thank goodness, we got lucky on the water bill...for the actual water, thanks to all the unusually high amounts of rain we got. BUT because the Board has refused to make any plans to switch to a native plant greenbelt that requires not irrigation, we are still paying a hefty utility bill, just to have the meter in place and for the electricity to run it!
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Reach out to us for support in protecting your homeowner/lessee rights and enhancing your individual freedoms to manage YOUR HOME. If, for example, you receive threatening letters from Proper HOA management or if you see any of their employees or anyone else representing the HOA, like the so-called "Architectural Control Committee," spying on you, taking photos of your home and writing down their highly subjective judgments, please let us know right away. If possible, get photos of these meddling, invaders of your privacy, and forward copies of any threatening letters demanding you pay "fines" or "fees," such as, demands that YOU pay for LETTERS THEY SEND, (an unethical and ILLEGAL practice called "Fee Stacking").
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